…PHOTO BY DANIEL LIPPITT Justin Ravitz: Jews must create new bridges. Finding The Best Inte rests Of All JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER As an attorney for Michigan Legal Services, Justin Ravitz saw a part of Detroit's riots witnessed by few other middle-class Jews: the lock-ups. In the week of the disturbances, over 7,000 civilians were arrested. While some had been looting or setting fires, others were guilty only of being in the wrong place at...…
…Dr. Arthur Johnson: "You do not find blacks running to Farrakhan." Holding A Torch JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER It is the sound of sirens and glass breaking that will always haunt Dr. Arthur Johnson, the former presi- dent of the Detroit NAACP and a re- tired vice-president for university relations at Wayne State Universi- ty. Thirty years later, sitting in his apartment overlooking the Detroit River, Johnson is still saddened by the memory of...…
…CityBoy JULIE EDGAR SENIOR WRITER for a dozen years, and Behind a stout desk in a comfortably serves on the board of musty office crammed with trophies and the Museum of African plaques, among them a Humanitarian of American History, to the Year award presented to him by Coret- which he was appoint- ed by former Mayor ta Scott King in 1992. At 78, coming to work every day at his Coleman Young and engineering firm on Wyoming in north- Mayor D...…
…LLIdd11 13INVO a 010Hd Sam Offen's story is one of return and exile. In 1969, two years after scofflaws looted their fiu- shop, Offen and his late partner, Saul Ceresnie, finally picked up stakes and moved their business out of Detroit. Their last location in the city was on the tony "Avenue of Fash- ion" on Livernois, the site of many Jew- ish-owned shops in Detroit. It wasn't simmering racial hostili- ties or the riots of July 1967 that sen...…
…Firmly Rooted In The City David Gad-Harf of the Jewish Community Council. JULIE WIENER STAFF WRITER Elaine and Eugene Driker never left Detroit. sidering facilitating a rela- tionship between JCC staff and Considine staff, perhaps to create joint programming. All the task force's projects are in cooperation with exist- ing community organizations in the city. 'We don't want to reinvent the wheel," explains Driker. "We just want to be at th...…
…Watching The Exodus For Kathleen Straus, July 23, 1967, was just a quiet Sun- day at home in northwest Detroit. With local media initially suppressing news of the ri- ots for fear of provoking further unrest, Straus was un- aware of the violence and looting going on miles away until a friend called from Toronto to find out if she was okay. Meanwhile, Straus' son Peter, visiting school friends in a mainly black neighborhood, found himself in t...…
…PHOTOS BY DANIEL LI PPITT Your Biggest Purchase Home buying has changed in the last decade, and so have the hot markets. ALAN ABRAMS SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Susan Weinstock shows a house to Robin and Matthew Sternberg. If ou've heard it said before: Buying a home is the single biggest purchase you will ever make. In that framework, Sandy Norman of the Century 21 Town & Country Brokerage in downtown Birmingham has a unique view of how ...…
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…H an ound Taking A L At The Art Scene... SUZANNE CHESSLER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Form In 3-D culpture Pontiac '97," an in- door/outdoor exhibit enhanc- ing the city's downtown ambience, features the works of 64 artists, including those of Sally Kaplan, Jay Lefkowitz, Ray Katz, Bri- an Kritzman, David Roth and Lois Teicher. The three-dimensional forms — cast and fabricated metals, woods, ce- ramics, glass, mixed media, videos and insta...…
…JN Fine Arts Montreal Masterpieces Mini Renderings T The tiny cast bronze sculptures created by Susan Steele Kaplan are formed by a lost-wax process. Though organically inspired, Ka- plan's delicate works go beyond nature to an almost Steelq sci/fi feel. They are Susan Kaplan : - among the pieces Amazon Pod; featured in 8 X 8, cast bronze. an exhibit devoted to works not any larger than eight inches in any direction. In the same exhibit, B...…
…• PBS's "PO.V" the only ongoing independent nonfiction film series on the air — celebrates 10 years of showcasing documentaryfilms on television. J EWISH NEWS JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS cc w 78 assion is a word Marc Weiss understands well. Very well. As an independent film- maker in the 1970s, passion fueled his drive for making films. .g‘ As a worker in a nonprofit organi- zation for independent filmmakers, passion ...…
…STN Entertainment A New Point Of View A trio of black and Jewish filmmakers take on a controversial subject in a new T. 0. V. " documentary. JILL DAVIDSON SKLAR SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS ti) happens all the time." 8 The second segment looks back on the civil rights struggle in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago. In the 1960s, mostly Jewish real estate speculators employed g racism to drive up sale prices of properties to black E reside...…
…Under Nell's Spell Nell Carter is harassing orphans as the evil Miss Hannigan in the 20th- anniversary Broadway production of 'Annie.' But offstage, she's a typical Jewish mother. MICHAEL ELKIN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS N ell Carter ain't misbe- havin'. She's just a lit- tle frustrated, trying to get those seats at the Martin Beck Theatre filled with more kids to see Annie. Thank God, she says, she has Judaism to keep her from getting jad...…
…My, Howie Laugh! Comedian Howie Mandel's special brand of improvisational humor keeps his audiences coming back for more. MICHAEL FREEDMAN SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS owie Mandel has always wanted to be the center of at- tention. It's how he managed to get kicked out of high school, and it's also the se- cret to the 41- year-old comedian's success in comedy and show busi- ness. "It's just a party," he says of his off-the-wall adult corn- edy...…
…Branching Out Li Rafael Guber researches family trees j' and preserves personal histories with artistic presentations. SUZANNE CHESSLER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS Rafael Guber creates genealogical works of art "that should be in a family for hundreds of generations." afael Guber recently visited Michigan to give advice on re- searching family trees and sur- prisingly found a branch of his own. Guber, speaking before the Jewish Genealogical...…
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